Bill Mensch was a major contributor to the design of the Motorola 6800 8-bit microprocessor and was part of the team led by Chuck Peddle that created the MOS Technology 6502.
12 Facts About Bill Mensch
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Bill Mensch designed the 16-bit successor to the 6502, the 65816.
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At WDC, Bill Mensch worked mainly on extending and expanding the 6502 architecture.
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Bill Mensch's designs are used widely in embedded systems and implantable, electronic, life-support devices.
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Bill Mensch has taught classes at Arizona State University, including courses on system on chip integrated circuit design.
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Bill Mensch is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Bill Mensch was responsible for the design of basic circuits, oscillator, and buffer, transistor sizing, and instruction decode logic, wishing to minimize the number of levels of logic to achieve faster operation.
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Bill Mensch claimed that Commodore never intended to use his design, and were instead seeking leverage to get a better deal for competing chips from Japanese producer Toshiba.
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Bill Mensch's next design, which was to become an important product at WDC, was a 65C02-compatible 16-bit microprocessor, the 65C816, later designated W65C816S.
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Bill Mensch developed the Bill Mensch Computer as a means to promote the W65C816S microprocessor.
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Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch are regarded as personal computer pioneers, because both the 6502 technology and business model were instrumental in helping launch the personal computer revolution.
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Bill Mensch has five children and resides with his wife, Dianne, in Superstition Mountain, Arizona.